Billy with Sandra Bernhard on Pose (Image via FX)

Billy Porter is enjoying his greatest career peak — and it's happening at age 49.

Porter tells People Magazine:

I really had a hard time as an out, black, gay actor making any headway. I wasn’t having a great time living up to the heteronormative masculinity standard to get the straight male work. So I wasn’t really working in film and television. And it was just frustrating, you know? It was just frustrating to sort of feel ignored and feel dismissed, and dismissed for even the flamboyant things.

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